RE: CD Production (a bit OT DTP...)

[mike@michaelplishka.com]

IF you 'd liek to make your own CD screens here's showing you how to do it:
http://www.instructables.com/id/EFAN6S16FTEQ2W3MOV/

Also, remember that most Radio Stations do NOT like CD's that aren't  
in something close to a jewel box.  They like to be able to see spines  
with info.  Also, If not on the CD then somewhere you should have  
track numbers with times.  Not a necessity in todays day and age but  
it makes Dj's lives easier.

~peace~

Plish

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Quoting goddard.duncan@mtvne.com:

> my band ships a lot of cd stock overseas. we have found a guy who doesn't
> mind if we order 5 or 500- he does them as cd-r (never had one faulty) &
> keeps the master audio & artwork so all I have to do is call him or email
> him. he does dvd too.... cuts the art, folds & inserts.... we get these 
>for
> about $2 each, irrespective of quantity or whether it's a new title.
> I didn't have to shop around much for this deal, & he keeps it nicely
> personal but professional. I hope everyone gets as lucky when they need 
>this
> kind of thing.
>
> but anyway.
>
> my main point is that for overseas sales, we can cut down on shipping 
>costs
> by negotiating with the distributor for him to source & assemble the 
>jewel
> cases locally. thus we only have to ship the discs & the artwork. most
> stores & mail-order sellers will have access to such things.
> OR....
> for most of our titles I have formatted the artwork to fit in a clear
> polythene sleeve (you may have seen these in boxes of 100 in radio shack 
>or
> stationery/office supply/computer stores).
>
> here's the DTP part:
>
> the artwork is much simpler than you get with a jewel box, obviously,
> although you can get adventurous & print both sides of the paper (I
> generally don't, though).... it ends up looking like a mini LP sleeve.
> I start with the front image, 200dpi & 123mm across by 125mm high. I
> position this at the top of the canvas which is 123mm by 250mm & then 
>rotate
> it so I can do the rear image/text layout. I use corel photopaint, which
> lets me print external crop marks. my printer (a cheap colour laser) is
> pretty accurate for size, so the 123mm x 250mm is exactly right for these
> poly sleeves.
> in any case, I only use my own printer for mock-ups & one-offs, like
> vinyl-restoration work.
>
> for the discs- I scanned an ordinary cd I happened to have that was a 
>solid
> block of colour, again at 200dpi, & used this to generate a mask for the
> on-body artwork. usually, though, this is just a couple of lines of text 
>in
> a font (made from my handwriting ages ago using fontographer).
> this makes the cd-r look home-made, even though it isn't.
> actually this started as a wry comment on the snobbishness we 
>occasionally
> encountered about our perfectly decent home-made cd-r's back in the days
> when we didn't sell enough stuff to justify farming it out.
>
> hope some of this is useful-
>
> duncan/r.m.i.
>
>
> 
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